Pedestrian the 83rd road victim this year
Since the start of the month, 11 people have lost their lives in road crashes.
Oliver Murray, The Orchard, Tullow Road, Carlow was knocked down by a van at Wall’s Forge on the main Carlow-Wexford Road at about 9.30am.
Aged 78, Mr Murray was a former principal of Grange national school, Co Carlow.
Witnesses to the crash are asked to contact Carlow garda station on (059) 913 6620.
Gardaí have also named the Dublin pedestrian killed after being struck by an articulated truck in Dublin city centre on Wednesday afternoon.
Anthony Kearns, 56, originally from Drimnagh, was hit by the truck at Bachelor’s Walk at 2.30pm. He died at the Mater Hospital.
Two people died in Northern Ireland on Friday night. A nine-year-old boy, who was a passenger in a car, was killed when the vehicle and a lorry collided on the Ballymena to Antrim road around 8.30pm.
A 24-year-old man died in Co Down when the car in which he was a passenger struck a wall on a bend on the Castlewellan road near Newcastle around 11pm.
